On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:59:24 +0100 robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > However, at the same time, this goes for the English documents, too. > > (By the way, really the jakarta PMC is reviewing whole jakarta > > subprojects' websites even written in english?) > this is one of the reasons why subprojects are being encouraged to > move out and why the size of the jakarta pmc has been increased. > between the pmc members there's hopefully enough supervision of > commit emails. the other safe guard is that only a few people are > trusted with rights to daedelus and most of these are in the jakarta > pmc. I see. Thank you for the explanation. (This was one of the puzzling things for me, to tell the truth) > the real problem is that these methods of supervision (watching > commit emails and guarding updates of the live site) only work when > the supervisor can read what's said. Make sense. > > This means that there are many *reviewer*s who have good eyes. > as well as many good eyes, an efficient system for feedback is also > need so that problems can quickly be fixed. Yep. So, *improvement of user-friendliness* is important for every projects/subprojects. Also (from my observation), *improvement of committer-friendliness* might be also important. For example, how to make *shortcut* to deal with many e-mails efficiently, etc etc. > > 2. > > As Noel has pointed out, I also agree with setting up mailing list > > for it as a first step. > +1 I am still wondering which might be better, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) Also, this creation can be announced at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am thinking of the would-be-mailing-list: > > 1. each projects' committers can post to the list > > 2. each projects' committers can ask to the list with english file, > > "Hi, I prepared the resource of the translation. Can > > anyone translate this and perform the native2ascii?" > this would also be very, very useful for requests to pmcs which are > not in english. Yep, I found that this could be achieved by the remote moderation of the mailing list (run by ezmlm). > > 3. the subscriber of the list directly (or non-directly) > > post to the correspond lists or post to the list. > > 4. The main topic will be the issues of i18n, l10n, m17n > > 5. more to come.... (docs translation etc.) > sounds good. how can we make this happen? In the next month, I think. I will ask many people's approvals for this plan via upcoming "The Apache Newsletter". :-) (And ApacheWiki[?] :-) -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) P.S. Please write articles of your projects (and Readers' Voice :-) at http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ApacheNewsletterDrafts/Issue1 for the upcoming Apache Newsletter! >> all --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]